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After 45 minutes of slow uphill, I see someone ahead in the road. Stranded? No, he's taking photos of the area, and of me

0-100_0207www_joergboetel_com.jpg Today's Mojave National Preserve festival of pink, purple and orange is probably the best I've experienced on this tripThumbnailsThe Kelbaker Hills behind me are busy absorbing every last bit of colour they can get before calling it a dayToday's Mojave National Preserve festival of pink, purple and orange is probably the best I've experienced on this tripThumbnailsThe Kelbaker Hills behind me are busy absorbing every last bit of colour they can get before calling it a dayToday's Mojave National Preserve festival of pink, purple and orange is probably the best I've experienced on this tripThumbnailsThe Kelbaker Hills behind me are busy absorbing every last bit of colour they can get before calling it a dayToday's Mojave National Preserve festival of pink, purple and orange is probably the best I've experienced on this tripThumbnailsThe Kelbaker Hills behind me are busy absorbing every last bit of colour they can get before calling it a dayToday's Mojave National Preserve festival of pink, purple and orange is probably the best I've experienced on this tripThumbnailsThe Kelbaker Hills behind me are busy absorbing every last bit of colour they can get before calling it a dayToday's Mojave National Preserve festival of pink, purple and orange is probably the best I've experienced on this tripThumbnailsThe Kelbaker Hills behind me are busy absorbing every last bit of colour they can get before calling it a day

Photographer Joerg Boetel and his wife flag me down as I approach and offer me hot tea from their thermos, as well as granola bars. I'm not sure I have enough time to stop and chat, but I do anyway.

This is one of the photos that Joerg Boetel took of me coming up Kelbaker Road with Providence Mountains in the background.